ST. PAUL — A St. Paul man faces a federal felony charge for allegedly putting a $45,000 hit on U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in a TikTok post.
Tyler Maxon Avalos, 29, is charged in U.S. District Court of Minnesota with making a threat with the intent to injure in connection with his alleged post, which included a caption that read, “WANTED: Pam Bondi / REWARD: 45,000 / DEAD OR ALIVE (Preferably Dead).”
It included a photo of Bondi with a sniper-scope red dot on her forehead. Under the photo, Avalos allegedly wrote: “cough cough / when they don’t serve us, then what?”
A TikTok user from Detroit saw the post and reported it to the FBI National Threat Operations Center on Oct. 9.
Avalos’ TikTok page, which has since been deleted, included an anarchist FAQ book and the spelling of “wacko

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